The Biggest Story Anyone Can Remember poses a conundrum for any hometown newspaper from a hometown that isn't New York or Washington, D.C. On one hand the story of the terrorist attacks and their aftermath is epic, moving, and deeply relevant to every American. On the other hand it is...
Many things grabbed my attention on a visit to Las Olas Fine Arts in Fort Lauderdale; the first were several sculptures by Niso Maman. What caught my eye was not the subject matter, which is conventional, even conservative by the standards of most contemporary sculpture: the headless human torso, its...
They say we were taken completely off guard. Since suicide hijackers crashed airliners into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, government officials have repeated in media reports that the country had been caught completely by surprise. U.S. intelligence officials have declared that they knew terror was planned but expected assaults...
On an overcast, oppressively muggy mid-August afternoon at John Prince Park in Lake Worth, the "Racial Holy War" seems far away indeed. As I sit at a picnic table under a pavilion by the bank of a stagnant creek that meanders through the park and empties into Lake Osborne, six...
The American Indian Movement, an organization of Native Americans, began more than 30 years ago in Minnesota and quickly became a militant thorn in the side of the United States government. The group took over Alcatraz in 1969 and a dam and an abandoned naval air station in 1970, marched...
Seated in his office on the 46th floor of the Bank of America building in downtown Miami, developer R. Donahue Peebles looks quite relaxed. The lofty headquarters for Peebles Atlantic Development Corporation overlooks Biscayne Bay and Miami Beach, the site of Peebles's crown jewel, the Royal Palm Crowne Plaza Resort,...
Hunting autographs at C.B. Smith Park in Opa-locka, neighborhood kids hurry past the unguarded gate backstage where hip-hop act Iconz is waiting to perform. With their debut album Street Money, Volume 1 approaching gold, the rappers headline the ninth annual Janet's Youth Talent Showcase, sponsored by Jah-Net's Jamaican Cuisine, and...
Best rag: I was glad to see your "Best Of" issue mentioned Tri-Rail twice, once for car pooling and cheap getaways (Best of BrowardPalm Beach, May 17). You omitted the even more amazing fact that senior citizens age 65 and up or kids from 5 to 12 years old can...
Left-wing loony New Times: I think your paper has lots of what appears to be great information. What I do not like is that it fits the stereotype of artsy-type people who know only of left-leaning causes. In the Best of BrowardPalm Beach (May 17), you have a Best Right-Wing...
New Times is cliché-free: Thank you for recognizing Festival Tribe Musical Events as Best Festival for 2001 (Best of Broward Palm Beach, May 17). We agree! However, as a tribe, we felt we had to respond to the term "dirty, greasy hippies." We wanted to note that some of the...
Given the autobiographical impulse, it's not surprising that there is a disproportionate number of movies about filmmaking. But Shadow Magic, Ann Hu's fictional feature debut, is different from most in two ways: It's set in China; and it's about the very earliest days of cinema, some 50 years before the...
Ricardo Ramirez doesn't seem like he would scare easily. A burly Mexican American with a barrel chest, forearms thick with ropelike muscle, and a full beard flecked with gray, he carries a .45-caliber semiautomatic Beretta pistol and speaks in quiet, measured tones. The 41-year-old Southwest Broward resident is a special...
We do this because we love it," the Crumbs guitarist Johnny B declares over a pint of Guinness in singer-guitarist Raf Classic's Spartan South Miami apartment. "There sure isn't any money in it." In this statement are enough grains of truth to brew a keg of stout. After eight years...
In reply to a faxed list of questions seeking response to Ramirez¹s allegations, the INS media relations office in Miami issued the following statement: The law enforcement actions conducted by the Florida District of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) regarding Elián González were appropriate, have been appropriate, and will...
By the 1970 release of Vintage Violence, John Cale had been deeply involved in the creation of albums that shook the world to its very core (as a performer on the first two Velvet Underground albums, as producer/multi-instrumentalist on Nico's Marble Index, and as producer of the Stooges' first album)...
The attorney wears a simple blouse, and her straight brown hair is as no-nonsense as her demeanor. She rests her head in her hands and, in a monotone, cross-examines a man as if reading from a list. He looks fortysomething and vaguely collegiate in a sagging tweed jacket and argyle...
Uwe Schmidt -- one of Germany's quirkiest electronic musicians with more than two dozen alter egos, including Atom Heart, Lassigue Bendhaus, and Lisa Carbon -- masquerades as South American composer/dancer Señor Coconut on this release, the now-available precursor to 1999's El Baile Alemán. For that album Schmidt reconfigured the sterile,...
Andy Spence, a.k.a. Organic Audio, was spinning Latin-inflected dance cuts in U.K. clubs a good year and a half before Basement Jaxx broke out in 1999 with the crossover Brazilian house groove of its smash Remedy. By the time OA's spicy debut, Back to My Roots, was released in 1998,...
Rick from the Ex-Cretins and I were thinking the same thing: "I packed way too many pairs of shorts for this trip," he groused, as we stood outside the Buffalo Club on East Seventh Street and grimaced at the maliciously cold gust of Austin evening air attacking our tender South...
The first time I meet Stephanie, the only part of her I see is her hand. Its knobby digits poke through the slats of the cheap blinds that cover the window of her room at the Travel Budget Inn Motel on Federal Highway in Hollywood. The hand appears for a...
It sure sounds like a good band on paper: A slightly obsessive-compulsive songwriter named Billy with a shaved head and lots of famous musician pals. A singer (also bald) from a dark, foreboding, prog-metal band that hasn't released a record in four years yet still boasts a huge underground following...
Meet Skot Foreman, a 36-year-old Boca Raton native who once was a successful corporate banker with a stable (and sizable) income but gave it all up. These days he can make $100,000 in a single day. Or he can earn nothing in weeks. He owns an art gallery and deals...
